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[Fuchsdh]

I feel like when people blame the netcode, they have know idea what they are talking about and just say netcode because they heard someone say it before.

Now you're thinking with portals.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Oh wow thats terrible, I would rather the pro's dropped Halo completely. If the competitive factor is gone what is the point in trying to keep that scene alive? I know they have paychecks on the line, but until they make it clear that Halo needs to be better next time round they are always going to get a game that isnt catered to them.

I just cant get over the fact that with that quote he is basically saying "eh, we all know Halo sucks, but lets cover it up to keep this pretence that competitive gameplay still exists!

When did he 'go pro?' if he didnt hit the scene until Halo Reach then he really is a joke character.

You have to be bullshitting with that quote. I refuse to believe it's real. :lol

You guys don't recognize that quote?

 

[Fuchsdh]

You guys don't recognize that quote?

Inb4 Godwin's Law stupidity.

 

[CyReN]

Halo 4 won GOTY at IGA.

what?

 

[IHaveIce]

Halo 4 won GOTY at IGA.

what?

lol wat.

 

[enzo_gt]

Halo 4 won GOTY at IGA.

what?

Maybe they didn't receive review copies of Borderlands 2?

Still, they should've been able to buy copies for themselves by now.

 

[Omni]

Maybe they didn't receive review copies of Borderlands 2?

Still, they should've been able to buy copies for themselves by now.

Borderlands 2 is sooo overrated

 

[YourExWife]

I'm sorry guys, and I'ma let ya'll finish, but that slayer game on Adrift ending in 0-0 was the best game of all time, OF ALL TIME!

 

[DeadNames]

Borderlands 2 is sooo overrated

It really is.

 

[HiredN00bs]

Halo 4 plays like shit online.

 

[Aggrotek]

Borderlands 2 is sooo overrated

It really is.

I play games for entertainment, and Borderlands 2 is by far one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've had in a long time. The writing is great, the gameplay is solid, and it's a shit load of fun with 3 friends.

Don't see how it's overrated.

 

[enzo_gt]

Borderlands 2 is sooo overrated

Nah it's pretty damn good. It's only flaws at all are some wonky drop rates and a tiny bit of dry writing amongst a ton of great writing. Hate to use the word flawless, but it's pretty damn close to it. If those kinds of games are not your type though, I can see people not liking it.

Not necessarily my GOTY, but it's one of the most solid, well-rounded releases in a very long time.

 

[Ken]

Handsome Jack was so boring though.

 

[xxjuicesxx]

Halo 4 plays like shit online.

What do you mean?

 

[Karl2177]

More single player complaints from Karl? Who would have guessed?

I dislike the fact that the sword's anti slowdown when shot ability applies to all bipeds wielding the sword. So Elites no longer stutter when taking a shotgun round or stutter when their shields pop (simply because that is how the Elite charge AI is). And as per the usual, Knights with Binaries and Incineration Cannons still aren't fun.

 

[Orochinagis]

Finally maxed out Wetwork now to level up the Engineer spec now but most of my friends moved to BLOPS 2. =/

I play games for entertainment, and Borderlands 2 is by far one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've had in a long time. The writing is great, the gameplay is solid, and it's a shit load of fun with 3 friends.

Don't see how it's overrated.

Its an good game, shines with the coop of course but in other aspects is just ok.

 

[Fuchsdh]

More single player complaints from Karl? Who would have guessed?

I dislike the fact that the sword's anti slowdown when shot ability applies to all bipeds wielding the sword. So Elites no longer stutter when taking a shotgun round or stutter when their shields pop (simply because that is how the Elite charge AI is). And as per the usual, Knights with Binaries and Incineration Cannons still aren't fun.

Hmm, lack of stun might be one of the reasons they seem hard to fight.

 

[Ken]

More single player complaints from Karl? Who would have guessed?

I dislike the fact that the sword's anti slowdown when shot ability applies to all bipeds wielding the sword. So Elites no longer stutter when taking a shotgun round or stutter when their shields pop (simply because that is how the Elite charge AI is). And as per the usual, Knights with Binaries and Incineration Cannons still aren't fun.

Fanaticism: +30 tenacity

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Inb4 Godwin's Law stupidity.

Damn you...

 

[CyReN]

Adrift 0-0 Gameplay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9jRoDWB7I&t=18m29s …

 

[FyreWulff]

Halo 4 plays like shit online.

Considering it's probably Reach's netcode and they turned off proximity chat, which would reduce bandwidth usage.. more than likely the hosting records being rebuilt from the TU still.

 

[HiredN00bs]

What do you mean?

Connection quality is poor overall.

Considering it's probably Reach's netcode and they turned off proximity chat, which would reduce bandwidth usage.. more than likely the hosting records being rebuilt from the TU still.

It was poop before the TU.

 

[Tawpgun]

Adrift 0-0 Gameplay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9jRoDWB7I&t=18m29s …

It's a beaut.

Are there any good competetive forge maps? I know a lot of the Halo 3 ones were loved. It's our only chance for small maps until the next map pack.

 

[feel]

game stinks

sig's streaming www.twitch.tv/siglemic

lol perfect

 

[Poker Face]

Considering it's probably Reach's netcode and they turned off proximity chat, which would reduce bandwidth usage.. more than likely the hosting records being rebuilt from the TU still.

Do we know why they turned off proximity chat? Or was it just to reduce bandwidth? It was so cool :/

Possibilities:

1) Bandwidth savings (Same reason Halo 3 had push-to-talk)

2) Telemetry shows that so many people are in party chat or mute other teams nowadays that they might as well turn it off for the bandwidth savings

3) They don't want or removed the ability for voice chat to be mixed into the soundscape (processing power savings) ala Halo 2/3/Reach. I think this would be the least likely though.

I think it's probably 2.

This is depressing. Really miss the time when you could go into matchmaking and almost everyone had a mic. Yea there were asshats but sometimes I met some pretty cool people

 

[FyreWulff]

Do we know why they turned off proximity chat? Or was it just to reduce bandwidth? It was so cool :/

Possibilities:

1) Bandwidth savings (Same reason Halo 3 had push-to-talk)

2) Telemetry shows that so many people are in party chat or mute other teams nowadays that they might as well turn it off for the bandwidth savings

3) They don't want or removed the ability for voice chat to be mixed into the soundscape (processing power savings) ala Halo 2/3/Reach. I think this would be the least likely though.

I think it's probably 2.

 

[rakka]

if it was to save bandwidth it doesn't show at all. laggy games more often than in reach especially for many of us outside of the US.

 

[FyreWulff]

This is depressing. Really miss the time when you could go into matchmaking and almost everyone had a mic. Yea there were asshats but sometimes I met some pretty cool people

The social aspect of Live is pretty much dead now. It's why I like Miiverse so much.

While there were some asshats, it was also pretty cool to meet and make friends on Halo 2 just after meeting them a couple times in matchmaking. There's about zero chance of that happening now.

 

[Tawpgun]

The social aspect of Live is pretty much dead now. It's why I like Miiverse so much.

While there were some asshats, it was also pretty cool to meet and make friends on Halo 2 just after meeting them a couple times in matchmaking. There's about zero chance of that happening now.

Thank you.

I love Party chat but it ruined the social aspect of live. I wish more games followed MW2's lead and banned party chat in some playlist. Would be cool if there was a Team Social or something.

 

[Fotos]

Anyone else have their LIVE go down? All of my friends just got disconnected from Xbox but the internet is fine.

 

[Poker Face]

The social aspect of Live is pretty much dead now. It's why I like Miiverse so much.

While there were some asshats, it was also pretty cool to meet and make friends on Halo 2 just after meeting them a couple times in matchmaking. There's about zero chance of that happening now.

Yep pretty much. Used to have 100 friends during the Halo 2 era, now I'm down to about 40something. What a shame.

Also friendly reminder, it's been over a month since release and still no working waypoint fileshares.

 

[Omni]

Anyone else have their LIVE go down? All of my friends just got disconnected from Xbox but the internet is fine.

Yeaaaaaaaaap. Not sure what happened

 

[FyreWulff]

Yep pretty much. Used to have 100 friends during the Halo 2 era, now I'm down to about 40something. What a shame.

Also friendly reminder, it's been over a month since release and still no working waypoint fileshares.

No working fileshares and no word on if they're actually going to start collecting Forge content. I really hope they aren't planning on putting maps that were worked on for less than a day by people that had played Halo 4 for a half hour in matchmaking as the initial Forge content.

 

[Hydranockz]

lol perfect

Lttp?

 

[Tunavi]

Thank you.

I love Party chat but it ruined the social aspect of live. I wish more games followed MW2's lead and banned party chat in some playlist. Would be cool if there was a Team Social or something.

no one on live uses mics.

Lttp?

Good game

 

[Omni]

Before Halo 4 was released, Halo 3 had quite a few people using mics... In BTB anyway.

 

[Pop]

Anyone else have their LIVE go down? All of my friends just got disconnected from Xbox but the internet is fine.

Nope.

 

[zap]

No working fileshares and no word on if they're actually going to start collecting Forge content. I really hope they aren't planning on putting maps that were worked on for less than a day by people that had played Halo 4 for a half hour in matchmaking as the initial Forge content.

? Why would they not be using ones people have been making now?

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Possibilities:

1) Bandwidth savings (Same reason Halo 3 had push-to-talk)

2) Telemetry shows that so many people are in party chat or mute other teams nowadays that they might as well turn it off for the bandwidth savings

3) They don't want or removed the ability for voice chat to be mixed into the soundscape (processing power savings) ala Halo 2/3/Reach. I think this would be the least likely though.

I think it's probably 2.

2 can't be it. Rage mic in black ops 2 is going off all the time.

 

[BuggyDClown]

I'm only 1 day and about 150 games shy of my total reach play time. Fuck, I'm so happy Halo 4 is leaps and bounds more fun than reach.

I'm hoping we get some updates in the future like multi team, 1 flag and doubles. Those are going to be fun to play again. I'm super bummed about waiting for new spartan ops. I play those every week.

Good news is I'm getting into the new forge now. I'm jumping on this hunger games forge map thing that everyone is making.

It's so awesome to have a fun game to play again, right guys?

 

[Barrow Roll]

I'm only 1 day and about 150 games shy of my total reach play time. Fuck, I'm so happy Halo 4 is leaps and bounds more fun than reach.

I'm hoping we get some updates in the future like multi team, 1 flag and doubles. Those are going to be fun to play again. I'm super bummed about waiting for new spartan ops. I play those every week.

Good news is I'm getting into the new forge now. I'm jumping on this hunger games forge map thing that everyone is making.

It's so awesome to have a fun game to play again, right guys?

How much were you payed to make this post?

Don't forget to dance the slurp.

 

[YourExWife]

Sooooooo, there's this: http://twitch.tv/yourexwife

lol - just matched Sudd 2 in BTB. Dis gunna be...something.

EDIT: lol - randy's are so bad. And Exile is terrible. Let's spawn blue team with a Gauss herp derp...

 

[User 73706]

Teaser for a machinima pet project of mine that's been in development since Halo 3. God forbid Halo 4 gets fixed to get rid of the stupid HUD feed that shows up even in flycam, fix file sharing/rendering, and I might just have something out by this spring.

A more formal teaser trailer will begin development just as soon as I can figure some things out.

Credits to this fellow for the base that I used for the background.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

I'm only 1 day and about 150 games shy of my total reach play time. Fuck, I'm so happy Halo 4 is leaps and bounds more fun than reach.

I'm hoping we get some updates in the future like multi team, 1 flag and doubles. Those are going to be fun to play again. I'm super bummed about waiting for new spartan ops. I play those every week.

Good news is I'm getting into the new forge now. I'm jumping on this hunger games forge map thing that everyone is making.

It's so awesome to have a fun game to play again, right guys?

My total Reach time is roughly 10 days. Looks like my Halo 4 time is at roughly 3 days, currently. Those times are with everything (campaign, FF/SpOps, Competitive, Customs and whatever else) included. So i'm about a third of the way into my total time with Reach. If we're just comparing Competitive Reach play to Halo 4 WarGames matchmaking, it's 7 days to 2. Not bad.

I absolutely hated BTB in Reach. Never touched it. I can at least shoot the breeze in Halo 4 BTB and have a decent time. Between mixing up CTF, Pro Slayer, and BTB, I don't usually burn out on the game. But I do have stretches of pure annoyance that piss me off and make me want to trounce my xbox. Those times are spaced out at least. I'm not really a map control guy or someone who misses the ability to spawn camp, and that's really just because I play alone so much. So a lot of the ill will toward the game that others have I can't really say I share. The randomness in this game really does help the individual more, but I can totally see how it would take away from or hamper competitive team play. Absolutely.

EDIT:

How much were you payed to make this post?

Don't forget to dance the slurp.

ROFL! Nice one, Barrow I'll dance the slurp!

 

[BlueScrote]

Considering it's probably Reach's netcode and they turned off proximity chat, which would reduce bandwidth usage.. more than likely the hosting records being rebuilt from the TU still.

I think 343 boosted trueskill's importance in the matchmaking so that more equal skills has a higher weighting than great connections.

If that's the case it's basically a lose lose situation.

 

[m23]

Any news on that extended spartan ops trailer?

 

[Digital Limit]

Jesus, that 0-0 match on Adrift was sad, but I guess that can happen at a local tournament, especially in a place as ho-hum as my hometown—La Crosse, WI.

Were they using default Infinity Slayer settings? I feel like Adrift could use Rockets mid to encourage map movement.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Jesus, that 0-0 match on Adrift was sad, but I guess that can happen at a local tournament, especially in a place as ho-hum as my hometown—La Crosse, WI.

Were they using default Infinity Slayer settings? I feel like Adrift could use Rockets mid to encourage map movement.

That game was the definition of pathetic. If all a team is going to do is camp out and be a bum, why are they even in the tournament? Show some combat initiation skills. Try and draw the other team out. Do something. Anything! lol.

 

[BuggyDClown]

How much were you payed to make this post?

Don't forget to dance the slurp.

lol. Sorry i wanted to bring some positive talk about my favorite new game back here. I hated hated hated reach. Over 3 years I only had 3 total days of play time. I'm getting close in a month of that with halo 4. Sorry I'm having fun

My total Reach time is roughly 10 days. Looks like my Halo 4 time is at roughly 3 days, currently. Those times are with everything (campaign, FF/SpOps, Competitive, Customs and whatever else) included. So i'm about a third of the way into my total time with Reach. If we're just comparing Competitive Reach play to Halo 4 WarGames matchmaking, it's 7 days to 2. Not bad.

I absolutely hated BTB in Reach. Never touched it. I can at least shoot the breeze in Halo 4 BTB and have a decent time. Between mixing up CTF, Pro Slayer, and BTB, I don't usually burn out on the game. But I do have stretches of pure annoyance that piss me off and make me want to trounce my xbox. Those times are spaced out at least. I'm not really a map control guy or someone who misses the ability to spawn camp, and that's really just because I play alone so much. So a lot of the ill will toward the game that others have I can't really say I share. The randomness in this game really does help the individual more, but I can totally see how it would take away from or hamper competitive team play. Absolutely.

EDIT:

ROFL! Nice one, Barrow I'll dance the slurp!

My total is a bit over 3 days for reach, so like you I am getting way more time in on halo 4. I didn't even play a full 500 games of matchmaking in halo reach and I'm already over 300 on halo 4.

I never liked MLG playlists, and couldn't give a shit about slayer pro. Sure I'd prefer some more game types but nothing is perfect, and I don't ever expect to meet that high of online fun that I have had with Halo 2.

 

[Digital Limit]

That game was the definition of pathetic. If all a team is going to do is camp out and be a bum, why are they even in the tournament? Show some combat initiation skills. Try and draw the other team out. Do something. Anything! lol.

I was so embarrassed for both groups. This is what it's come to? Three blue guys staring at a sticky detonator ordnance, lol. Just no.

It looked like Sword wasn't even mid. I don't understand.